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T. P. WILKINSON. MACHINE PORPRESSING HATS.

No. 416,245. Patented Dec. 3, 1889.

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T. P. WILKINSON. MACHINE FOR PRBSSING HATS.

No. 416,245. I Patented Dec. 3, 1889.

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UNITE STATES PATENT OFFICE.

THOMAS RNVILKINSON, OF MILFORD, MASSACHUSETTS.

MACHINE FOR PRESSING HATS.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 416,245, dated December 3, 1889.

Application filed July 25, 1889. Serial No. 318,660. (No model.)

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This invention is an improvement on the machine for molding or pressing hats patented to TI P. Wilkinson April 23, 1889, No. 401,809.

In accordance with this invention more efficient means are provided for holding the independent brim-mold in place, thereby requiring less fitting of parts; also, means are provided to assist in raising the bed carrying the inner crown-mold, and adjusting devices are provided for the operating mechanism by which the said bed is raised. The inner crown-1nold is preferably detachably secured to a supporting-plate provided, as herein shown, with a suitable handle, by which it may be readily removed from and applied to the bed-plate. The edge-guide for the brim is also made removable, so that edge-guides of different sizes may be provided without changing the crown. To insure a better fit for the parts, the interior wall'or contacting face of the edge-guide is beveled to co-operate with a correspondingly-beveled brim-mold.

My invention therefore consists in details of construction to be hereinafter described, and designated in the claim.

Figure 1 shows, in front elevation, a hatmolding machine embodying my invention; Fig. 2, a longitudinal section of the inner crown-mold and its support and removable edge-guide; Fig. 3, a plan view of the bed- -plate; Fig. 4, a plan View of the inner crownmold-supporting plate; Fig. 5, a plan view of the edge-guide; Fig. 6, an under side view of the inner crown-mold, and Fig. 7 a sectional detail of the outer crown-mold and brim-m old supported on it.

The main frame-work of the machine comprises the base a, side posts a, and cross head or bar a said parts being joined together by rods or bars a At the top part of the machine a hollowed or chambered holder b is provided, which is heated by steam or hot air outer crown-mold c, as it is liable to do when the crown-mold is simply beveled outwardly at its lower end, as has been heretofore done.

The bed-plate 0 (shown separately in Fig. 3) is secured to the frame or carrier consisting of bars 6, joined together and adapted to slide on the guide-rods Q The bed-plate 0 has slots 3, (see Fig. 3,) through which suitable fastening-bolts pass into the cross-bars e, the slots insuring a limited adjustment for the bed-plate. The bed-plate 0 has projections 4, rising above its plane face.

The mold-supporting plate 0 (shown separately in Fig. 4) is provided with suitable handles 5, by which it may be removed from and placed upon the bed-plate 0, it being heldin position on said bed-plate by the projections 4, which enter corresponding recesses 6 in said plate. The bed-plate 0 also has two clips 7, which engage and hold the bar 8, attached diametrically to the inner crown-mold 0 (see Fig. 6), said bar 8 being cut away, as at 9, to receive the said clips, so that the mold in suitable pipes 11. The outer crown-mold 0 is held in place on the plate 0', and also prevented from rotation. The plate 0 is provided with recesses or holes 10 at two or more points.

The edge-guide o for the brim consists of a ring of suitable size and shape, having 011 its under side lugs 12, (see dotted lines Fig. 5), which enter the recesses 10 in the plate 0 to hold the same in position. The ring 0 constituting the edge-guide, may be attached in any other suitable manner, but means by which it may be instantly removed are preferable. The inner edge of the edge-guide 0 is inclined or beveled, (as best shown in Fig. 2), to facilitate the entrance of the brim-mold.

One ormore weights '20, attached to cords w,

passing over pulleys 10 and connected to the frame e, counterbalance the latter, two such weights being herein shown.

As a means for raising the frame (3, which is very heavy, I employa foot-lever '22, attached to a rod or shaft 'It', to which is fixed an arm n the'latter being jointed by a pin a with an arm or link 01 which is in turn jointed by bolt 22 to one end of an arm or link n, loosely jointed at 23 to a casting 24, secured to the under side of the frame, the links a it forming a toggle. The toggle n n is loosely c0nnected by the bolt 22 vith an arm or link a, thereby constituting a double toggle-lever. The arm n has upon it a projection n provided with a screw a and the arm n" has on it a projection 91*, so that when the foot-lever n is depressed and the toggle-levers n n" forced into substantially vertical position the screw a striking the projection n ,forms a stop and limits the movement of the toggle. The arm it embraces loosely an eccentric 171, (see dotted lines Fig. 1,) secured to a shaft m, having a haudlem Movement of the handle m varies the fulcrum of the toggle-levers, and said handle is retained in place by resting on a pin 12, placed in one or another of the holes 13 in the curved bar 1i.

I do not desire to limit my invention to the exact mechanism shown for raising the frame e, and in place of it I may use any equivalent mechanism to that herein described.

I claim- 1. In a machine for pressing hats, an outer crown mold and hollowed or chambered holder therefor, combined with the bed-plate o, removable mold-supporting plate 0 thereon, and stops at each end of said plates 0 o to retain them in position, and inner crownmold 0 and the removable ed ge-guide 0 substantially as described I 2. In a machine for pressing hats, an outer crown mold and hollowed or chambered holder therefor, combined with the adjustable bedplate 0, removable mold-supporti n g-platc 0' arranged thereon, substantially as described, the inner crown-mold 0 detachably connected to said plate 0, and the removable edge-guide 0 substantially as described.

In a machine for pressing hats, an outer 'crown-mold having a brim-mold at its lower end, combined with a removable mold-sup porting plate 0, an inner crown-mold 0 secured thereto to be moved in unison with said supporting-plate, and an adjustable bedplate, substantially as described.

4. I11 a machine for pressing hats, an outer crown-mold and abrim-mold at its lower end, a removable mold-supporting plate 0', an inner crown-mold 0 and means to secure the said inner crown-mold to the said mold-supporting plate, combined with the removable edge-guide 0 and means to effect the engagement of the said edge-guide and supporting-plate, whereby the edge-guide is compelled to move in unison with the supporting-plate when the latter is being Withdrawn laterally from underneath the outer crownmold, substantially as described.

5. In a machine for pressing hats, an outer crown-mold having a flange at its lower edge provided with a horizontal upper surface and an independent brim-mold having a recess shaped to correspond with said flange and arranged thereon, combined with a bed-plate 0, mold-supporting plate thereon, the inner crown-mold, and edge-guide, substantially as described.

6. In a machine for pressing hats, an outer crown mold and hollowed or chambered holder therefor, combined with the bed-plate 0, the removable plate 0', arranged thereon and having clips 7, the inner crown-mold 0 having the diametrically-arranged bar 8, and the edge-guide, substantially as described.

7. In a machine for pressing hats, an outer crown-mold and holder therefor, the inner crown-mold and support therefor the double toggle-lever for raising said support, and means, substantially as described, for varying the fulcrum of one of the said levers, as and for the purpose set forth.

In testimony whereof I have signed my name to this specification in the presence of two subscribing witnesses.

THQMAS P. WILKINSON.

Witnesses:

also. W. GREGORY, FREDERICK L. EMERY. 

